4CP | Four Color Process

Last year, I did three weeks of nothing but Jack Kirby in the Seventies. I was reminded of it while scrolling through this amazing Mosaia page (screenshot above) that has been collecting every 4CP post since the beginning. My blog's entire run is literally on one page, and you can link back to the enlargements directly from Mosaia.

Art by Alfred Alcala.

From "Nickie Norton of the Secret Service," in "Thrilling Comics" #11, December, 1940. Script by Richard Hughes, art by Alexander Hughes, colorist unknown.

"The Lone Ranger" by Fran Striker

"Mandrake the Magician" by Lee Falk & Phil Davis

"Thimble Theatre" by E.C. Segar

"King of the Royal Mounted" by Zane Grey

"Barney Baxter in the Air" by Frank Miller

"Redmen - The Ventures of Black Hawk" by Jimmy Thompson

"The Little King" by Otto Soglow

"Flash Gordon" by Alex Rayond

"King Comics" anthologized more than a dozen King Features Syndicate newspaper strips into a 64 page comic book. It was a Sunday comics manga for a dime. I purchased this issue at Comics Dungeon in Seattle for $3 last week.

I've begun an ongoing series at HiLobrow that pairs 4CP images with the full panels or pages from which they were cropped. Get a sense of scale, see how cool or lame the orginal contexts were, and be inspired to try this at home, kids!